Amplify opportunity.
An individual’s success is directly proportional to the access that person has to opportunity: to networks, to knowledge, to skills, to language, to capital. Carnot’s mission to twofold: dismantle structural barriers and to increase access in order to amplify the opportunities available to under-represented individuals.
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
Carnot Fund is a philanthropic instrument that focuses on immediate flashpoints of social need; sustained giving to non-profit organizations in which Carnot Founders have an ongoing participation or involvement; and venture-style angel investments in organizations that have under-represented founding teams and address an urgent social need in which we believe.